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Some psychosocial aspects of nonlethal chondrodysplasias: IV. Dyadic scale of marital adjustment

✍ Scribed by Hunter, Alasdair G.W.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 30 KB
Volume: 78
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980616)78:1<17::aid-ajmg4>3.0.co;2-i

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This article examines marital adjustment of couples who have had a child with dwarfism due to a skeletal dysplasia, and of couples where one or both members are dwarfs. The instrument used was the Dyadic Adjustment Scale developed by Spanier [1976: Marriage Family 38:15-38]. The reasons for examining this psychosocial aspect of dwarfism were that the birth of a dwarfed child to average-size parents might be expected to cause stress in the relationship, and because several authors had raised concerns about the nature and/or quality of marriages involving dwarfs. This study provides evidence of a decrease in the level of marital adjustment for the average-size parents of affected children, gives tentative reassurance about marriages where both individuals are dwarfs, but raises some concerns about couples where only one member is a dwarf.

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